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Terry -- For clarification, the format question was not a style question. It was a reference to the one versus many that I wrote in the explainer.
Yes... there are many prescribed formats already. That is the easy part.
-Jackie
On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 11:33 PM Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
On 9/9/2018 3:43 PM, Jacqueline Kazil wrote:
\> The PSF has received a few inquiries asking the question —
\> “How do I cite Python?”So, I am reaching out to you all to figure this out.
\>
\> (For those that don’t know my background, I have been in academia for a
\> bit as a Ph.D student and have worked at the Library of Congress writing
\> code to process Marc records <https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/>,
\> among other things.)
\>
\> IMHO the citation for Python should be decided upon by the Python
\> developers and should live somewhere on the site.
\>
\> Two questions to be answered…
\>
\> 1\. What format should it take?
There are by now formats for citing web documents. I presume style
guides now include such. Try a current version of the Chicago Manual of
Style. (not sure of exact title). I will ask a university professor
who should know more than I.
\> 2\. Where does it live on the site?
On https://bugs.python.org/issue26597, I suggested the Copyright page.
I now think a link to 'Citing these Documents' on https://docs.python.org/3/
would be even better.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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